DMK government has failed, facing strong anti-incumbency wave in Tamil Nadu: Arjun Meghwal

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has said that the DMK government in Tamil Nadu has failed to fulfill its promises and is facing strong anti-incumbency ahead of the assembly elections scheduled in the first quarter of 2026.

In an interview with PTI Video, Meghwal also welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision on Aravalli, but criticized the Congress for “spreading misinformation” on the matter.

The BJP’s Tamil Nadu election co-in-charge said his party-led ruling NDA will take these issues to the people and seek their mandate. “There is a strong anti-incumbency wave against the DMK government in Tamil Nadu. They came to power promising good governance but failed. Development has stopped and corruption has increased,” Meghwal said.

He said, “We will tell them that when the NDA government comes to power, the pace of development in Tamil Nadu will accelerate, good governance will be established and people will get relief.”

Meghwal said the BJP’s alliance with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is going “very well” and a special intensive revision of voter lists is also underway in the state.

“I went to Tamil Nadu with (Union Minister) Piyush Goyal. I gathered information about the SIR process there. The SIR process is progressing well there,” he said.

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Meghwal said the last SIR was done when the Congress government was in power and it continued even when the DMK was part of the central government. “This is not happening for the first time. This is a process to clean up the voter list.” The minister also claimed that there were “political reasons” behind TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s criticism of the SIR, nothing more.

On Congress’s opposition to changing the name of MNREGA, Meghwal said that the party had taken similar action when it was in power and pointed out that the employment guarantee scheme was earlier named Jawahar Rozgar Yojana.

The BJP leader said, “Didn’t Congress change that name? Names of employment schemes have been changed earlier also. But this time it was done because when we went into the field there was a demand to use technology in NREGA.”